Downgrade the license to basic

[vinholla (Vinayaka Holla)]

how to downgrade license from - trial to basic as we are getting below error

{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"security_exception","reason":"current license is non-compliant for [security]","license.expired.feature":"security"}],"type":"security_exception","reason":"current license is non-compliant for [security]","license.expired.feature":"security"},"status":4

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

What is your Elastic version?

[vinholla (Vinayaka Holla)]

ES version is 8.8.2

Vinayaka Holla

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

Where is the error message coming from? Could you share a bit more of the context?

i'm asking because the basic license contains security so I'm wondering what is the full picture here.

[stephenb (Stephen Brown)]

BTW Here is the process

Downgrading License

So I installed a platinum license Then when I ran this this without the acknowledgment you should get POST _license/start_basic { "acknowledged" : false, "basic_was_started" : false, "error_message" : "Operation failed: Needs acknowledgement.", "acknowledge" : { "message" : """This license update requires acknowledgement. To acknowledge the license, please read the following messages and call /start_basic again, this time with the "acknowledge=true" parameter:""", "watcher" : […

But What other security features are you using? SAML? Document level security?

Normal Auth / Auth and TLS Are part of Basic license